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The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.


Robert Brault

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CHRIS GRABENSTEIN In addition, we can use less asphalt material. So, instead of putting two inches down, like we do wi...
BILL POLICK On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, ...
MAIRA KALMAN To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
JOSH JENKINS To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it
JOSH JENKINS . . . as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a penci...
DOROTHY PARKER At the time, that fish was just 15 pounds off the all-tackle record. It was just an incredible fish ...
GEORGE POVEROMO Life is like a painting. Imagine it, hit and try drawing with the pencil of first steps, fill in the...
VIKRMN A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to s...
ROBERT FULGHUM Scissors with blades less than four inches long and tools like screwdrivers, wrenches, pliers that a...
KIP HAWLEY The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
ROBERT BRAULT Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.
W. I. E. GATES The total for the year is only 19.46 inches. Of this amount, only .13 of an inch fell in December on...
STUART CHILTON I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could ...
LINDA GRAY Scissors with blades less than four inches (10 centimeters) long and tools like screwdrivers, wrench...
KIP HAWLEY One lady extended hers out 6 inches to a foot so she could hang a bird feeder on it. But just make s...
DENNY BURK The autopilot is a hands-free piece of electronic wizardry. It's not some brutal application of elec...
ADAM JOHNSON Try to keep them no more than a half inch. Quarter inch is the best.
TERESA FOLLMER The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a pri...
STEVE JOBS Their top player was 6-foot-3-inches. We played a solid first half but we lost it in the second half...
SHARON ALLEN I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half h...
JERZY KOSINSKI Best day I ever had out here was seven [bluegill] over 10 inches.
AARON LONG The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're tr...
MEG ROSOFF We were dead and lifeless. It looked like Easter Sunday. We just didn't quite have it in the first h...
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TAMMARA WEBBER I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches bet...
TUG MCGRAW You never gave any of us an inch, ever, for what you thought was right,
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STEVE JOBS The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ...
JEAN KERR The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ...
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MIKE BARNICLE Six feet and a half inch. I need that half.
JESSE MAHELONA On the average we got 50-60 centimeters (20-24 inches).
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ANDREW MAGULICK I stopped touring a year and a half ago, ... I just got dead with it.
ANDRE BENJAMIN We're two and a half inches behind. For February, we should have had 3.3 inches.
BOB RENARD That's shocking in itself. This is a lot bigger than the average case.
HOWARD JOHNSON There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
JIM LEACH We had a good final seven-minute push in the second half, but that was about it. We dominated the fi...
CARMEN SCHOOLCRAFT A seven-inch carrot contains 2,025 RE's or micrograms of Vitamin A.
CHRIS ROSENBLOOM If Wally gets excited and gives him an inch, ... it's going to be two or three inches.
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JERRY CANTRELL I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long...
ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN The first half was quite even, but it was a case of how many we were going to score in the second ha...
DEREK JOHNSTON David's help was just tremendous, ... When they did away with that office, I just thought, 'I hope I...
JOSH MCCOWN People thought I was dead. But I wasn't. I was just directing 'The A-Team.'
DAVID HEMMINGS They're really only an inch or an inch and a half big, and with so many other grasses and weeds grow...
VERENA WIELOCH A half an inch of rain is nice, but we could use a whole lot more.
DAVID WALKER We thought the game was over when it really wasn't. With seven minutes to go, you still got to play ...
MAURA MCHUGH Today, most are diagnosed when they are only about a half-inch in diameter,
ANNE DAWSON The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS What day is it?"
It's today," squeaked Piglet.
My favorite day," said Pooh.
A.A. MILNE Fucking bastard, I'll stab you in the chest with this pencil.
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TONY TETHER I talked to the guys about maximizing their opportunities. We missed seven or eight easy baskets in ...
AL CARTER We've had four-and-a-half inches of rain in that area since Sept. 15,
GARY KEMP Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth t...
JON BON JOVI We beat a rival in what I thought was a classic game. But we can't settle. The season's only half ov...
BOBBY BYERLY To know the hurt of what losing a loved one brings. Well put it this way time does not heal, you lea...
GARY F EVANS... A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
HARLAN HOWARD A lot of songs you write are just for exercise -- just pencil sharpeners.
HARLAN HOWARD When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.
CAROLINE CORR Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!
GEORGE CARLIN Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view ...
CAROLL SPINNEY I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY Support received by the university was more than seven times the average national increase of 4.9 pe...
BRIAN ECKERT I thought we were just a little hurried in the first half. You can't throw the ball to them. You can...
DOUG BRUNO Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which ca...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL Many young police were dead for working overtime, with the average age of the police dead on duty st...
FAN JINGYU I couldn’t tell you, Robert, what the higher ramifications are of being soul mates. I can tell you...
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TIM BURTON Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course...the space between your ears.
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BOB ODOM In the second half, we came out a little dead. I felt like guys just weren't into it.
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ELIZABETH WURTZEL "In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was ce...
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ROBERT FROST The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
ROBERT FROST Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
ROBERT FROST The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
ROBERT FROST Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
ROBERT FROST A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
ROBERT FROST Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
ROBERT FROST There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
ROBERT FROST The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the diff...
ROBERT FROST They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
ROBERT FROST What we live by we die by.
ROBERT FROST By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a da...
ROBERT FROST I go to school the youth to learn the future.
ROBERT FROST Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind ska...
ROBERT FROST The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint w...
ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
ROBERT FROST And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written o...
ROBERT FROST If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
ROBERT FROST Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. ...
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